COUNTDOWN BEGINS: Dixville Notch Will Choose Our Next President Less Than 8 Hours From Now

As all of you West Wing fans out there will know, a tiny town in
northern New Hampshire, Dixville Notch, votes at midnight on
voting day in both the primaries and general election.

The town's ~25-odd registered voters all gather to cast their
ballots at midnight, and the polls are closed one minute later.
Then the votes are counted.

It's 4:30pm on the East Coast now, which means that the Dixville
Notch votes will be cast and tallied in less than 8 hours from
now.

Why does this matter?

Well, on the West Wing episode that made Dixville famous, it
mattered because Dixville was said to have picked every President
in the last multi-umpteen elections, or something like that.

According to Wikipedia, the town's record is not quite as
pristine as West Wing might have had us believe. But it's still
not bad. At least recently.

Since 1960, Dixville voters have picked 7 of 13 winners,
including the last three.

The community was wildly out of touch with the rest of the nation
in 1996 election, when they elected Bob Dole by a wide margin
over Bill Clinton, and 1992, when they reelected President George
H.W. Bush (who lost to Clinton). Other than those two elections,
they've been in sync since 1976.